Alberta Association of Academic Libraries

AAAL 2018 Fall Meeting Minutes Date: Thursday, November 15, 2018 ​ Location: NAIT, Learning Resources Centre ​ 11762 106 St NW, Edmonton, AB T5G 3H6 (L​ ink to Map​) Room: U116, Across from Fresh Express ​ Lunch Cost: Free! (RSVP Required) ​ Parking: Limited onsite parking, Campus Parking Map ​ ​ ​ ​ Hotels near NAIT: Chateau Louis Hotel & Conference Centre (Ask for NAIT Guest ​ ​ Discount), Best Western Plus City Centre Inn (Ask for Corporate Rate) ​ ​ Hotels Downtown Near LRT: Matrix Hotel, Coast Edmonton Plaza Hotel ​ ​ ​ ​ ​

AAAL Executive & Key Contact Information

Chair: Nicolle Lemay (780) 497-5883 [email protected] ​ Chair-Elects: Jessie Loyer (403) 440-8699 [email protected] ​ Ebony Magnus (403) 210-4477 [email protected] ​ Secretary-Treasurer: Alison Foster (780) 497-5251 ([email protected]) ​ ​ Membership Coordinator: Morgan Hordal (403) 284-8617 [email protected] ​ ​ ​

Communications Committee: Erik Christiansen, Hanne Pearce, Alison Pitcher (Web, News & Social Media) [email protected]

Mentorship Committee: Isobel Rancier, Kalin Jensen, Lindsey Whitson [email protected]

Nominations Committee: CJ de Jong [email protected] ​ Geoff Owens [email protected] ​

PD Committee: Christine Loo [email protected] ​ Shannon D’Agnone [email protected] ​ Kevin Tanner [email protected] ​

Statistics and Assessment Tara Stieglitz [email protected] ​ ​ Committee: Nicole Palanuk [email protected] ​ ​ ​ ​ Luke Malone [email protected] ​

Workshop Committee: Angie Mandeville [email protected] ​ Leanne Morrow [email protected] ​ Jessica Leslie [email protected] ​ 1

Morning Schedule of Events

8:30 am – 9:00 am Coffee and Breakfast Pastries provided by AAAL

9:00 am – 9:10 am Introduction from NAIT Host Carmen Reems, Acting NAIT Library Manager

Approval of Minutes of the Spring 2018 AGM Motion by CJ de Jong to approve the Spring 2018 AGM minutes. Motion seconded by Debbie McGugan. No additions or deletions. Motion passed. Approval of Agenda Motion by Dan Mireau to approve the agenda. Motion seconded by Michael Baird . No new business. Motion passed.

9:10 am – 9:15 am AAAL Executive: Verbal Reports Nicolle Lemay, AAAL Chair In addition to the written report, Nicolle added the following: ● Thanked NAIT hosts and planning committee Alison Foster, AAAL Secretary-Treasurer In addition to the written report, Alison added the following: ● Please see me if you have any issues with membership dues payment ● Thanked everyone for patience with transition to new fee structure; all documentation and payment information is now up to date ● Restated need for Auditors in Spring 2019.

Jessie Loyer & Ebony Magnus, Chair-Elects ● Investigating next meetings and potentially decoupling from the TAL meetings ● Looking for members to take on webmaster and social media administrator positions.

9:15 am – 9:35 am AAAL Committee: Verbal Reports Communications (2 min.) ● 7 questions blog sign-up is seeking members - link: bit.ly/AAAL7QA ● Seeking webmaster and social media for communications meeting Workshop Committee (2 min.) ● Joined by Jessica Leslie and Leanne Morrow this year. ● Thank you to all who submitted proposals for the AAAL meeting Statistics and Assessment Committee (15 mins.) ● Joined by Luke Malone from SAIT this year ● Last year’s statistics now on the AAAL site (thank you to Ebony). Report hosted in Tableau. ● Current reports show last year and this year’s statistics

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● Uploaded all of the raw data into dataverse through the U of A. Will be uploading subsequent spreadsheets into dataverse as well. ● Question: deadline for submission - November 19, 2018

9:20 am – 10:30 am Round-table -- Facilitated by Ebony Magnus and Jessie Loyer ​ Yellowhead Tribal College - Nicole Palanuk - Recently moved to new location, now in the previous ​ MacEwan west Campus-Welcomes visitors. Vanguard College - Karina Dunn - Institution has new Academic Dean, library is pursuing embedded ​ librarianship opportunities, seeing an increase in circulation and usage. University of Alberta - Sharon Murphy - effective August 15, 2018, Dale Askey appointed as the new ​ ​ Vice-Provost (Learning Services) and Chief Librarian,Second floor of Cameron Library is under ​ construction, hoping to complete by Spring 2019. Hosting the ARL Library Management Skills institute at the end of November. Will also be hosting the ACCESS conference Fall 2019. King’s university - Shannon D’Agnone - new instruction librarian, Rebecca Pretty. Implemented L-Pass ​ and Me-scan this year. Received a large donation and will be bringing a new learning space into the library by Fall 2019. TAL - Tim Janewski - Tim is now the ongoing CEO of TAL, new members joining TAL, Alberta Bible College ​ and Canadian Southern Baptist Seminary and College. Lois Hole digital library reviewing offer from Proquest, will provide more information as it develops. Gale digital resources - asking if Alberta Libraries would like to add more to the collection. Currently reviewing use of openathens, would replace ezproxy. Folio open source LMS has been discussed at Net Speed, handout provides more information SAIT - Ebony Magnus - Dave Weber retired Spring 2018, Jessica Leslie is new instruction librarian as well ​ as Hillary Stamper, Assessment Librarian. Ebony is currently the interim Library Manager. Red Deer College - President is retiring, search is beginning. Winter games is approaching. Currently ​ undergoing process of becoming a University Olds College - Michael Baird - new Dean of new School (Innovative Agriculture) - Library has taken ​ ownership of the papers processed by the college, need to ensure all of the Chairs are meeting the ministry requirements. Mandy Wills returned to Grande Prairie, joined by Ashley Davidson from MRU. Makerspace is growing with new tools e.g. Arduino, . Just got Criterion on Demand in the collection, has had 204 uses in the last month Norquest - Tanya Nguyen - September 2018 - first year in the new library, 75% more space. Student ​ population has doubled in the last five years. Ten new programs started, with 30 more in the next year. Instituted Qualtrics for student feedback during instruction. Also increased service hours for the library. Screened the first contact services and invited Elder Rick Lightning to speak. Piloting Hoopla audiobooks in the collection. Now have a team of five librarians, including a student engagement librarian. Created new citation format for Elder and Indigenous knowledge. NAIT - Isobel Rancier - new Co-op student helping with instruction, from Western University. Update on ​ transitioning from to ALMA. Currently creating an institutional repository using ALMA, allows it to be accessed via PRIMO. Just received 6,500 photographs from the medical imaging department. Ultimately hope to host a variety of NAIT-created materials. Now have a staffed makerspace room - now offer tutorials via Moodle rather than in-person training so that they can use the makerspace tools on their

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own. Outreach team hosting multiple events e.g. participating in international games week - VR headsets were a big hit. Mount Royal University - Jessie Loyer - Working in the new library space - Huge increase in use of ​ immersion studio that allows projections on all four walls. Getting a variety of uses e.g. simulations, drag show, etc. MacEwan University - Debbie McGugan - Joined by Kym S., Debbie will be retiring in June, search is ​ underway. Will be starting a renovation project to expand the library space, have hired Dialogue to help with the design and planning. Recently launched 3D printing and currently have four 3D printers. Lethbridge College - Corene Kozey - Currently seeking a new Associate Dean, once position is on place, ​ they may have another librarian or library position. Will be renovating this coming May. Lakeland College - Wanjiku Kaai - New Dean to the college, has been there for 7 months. Library is now ​ reporting to the new Dean. Has a large contingent of international students and is ensuring that library services are aligned to their learning needs. 24 hour space is still being piloted. Not seeing a significant increase in usage in the late night hours, currently. Concordia - Dan Mireau - Karen H. Retired. In the process of completing an administrative self-study, ​ formulating new mandate statement. Instructional videos on youtube getting a good response. Library is hoping to support the new initiatives and strategies coming out of Concordia as 100 year anniversary coming up on 2021. Digitizing archival material. Concordia is celebrating Data month and celebrating the 100th anniversary of Stats Canada, everyone is welcome to come to the talks. Banff Centre - Mark Black - Alison Comrie joining as Practicum student from UBC. Artist book collection ​ is about 5,500 items and Alison has been completing outreach activities with the collection. Hosting the ASA conference May 2019. Hosting Stony Language classes. Updating and reviewing policy. User numbers are up about 15%. Athabasca - Rob Hudson - Rob recently joined as Associate Librarian, heads Public Services. Looking for ​ another Associate Librarian. Now have Amazon Web Services, first university to be part of AWS in Canada. Now partnering with Northern Lakes College, will be joining the college at Athabasca Campus. Alberta Bible College - Darcy Gullacher - recently joined TAL and AAAL. ​ Library Association of Alberta - Norene Erickson - Currently updating policies and and bylaws. Working ​ to start new partnerships, such as the Archives Society of Alberta. United Voice for Libraries is no longer a committee. It has tasked LAA to form an Advisory Committee to be a centre point for communication for library and library-related associations in Alberta. Goal of the working group would be to avoid duplicating work across associations. Alberta Library Conference - April 25-28, Jasper Park Lodge. Added a free shuttle to the Jasper Town site ​ as well as a session block on Friday - will continue to do so in 2019. Terry O’Reilly (CBC) will be keynote, as well as Craig Silverman (Buzzfeed News).

10:30 am - 10:45 am Coffee Break

10:45 am -- 11:05 am Special Presentation: Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research ~ Jessica Lange (McGill University)

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11:05 am -- 11:30 am Preliminary results: CAPAL/ACBAP 2018 Census of Canadian Academic Librarians ~ Ebony Magnus ((Southern Alberta Institute of Technology), Eva Revitt (MacEwan University), Alvin ​ ​ Schrader (University of Alberta), John Wright (University of Calgary)

11:30 am -- 1:00 pm Lunch - Optional tours of the NAIT Library ​ ​ ​

Afternoon Schedule of Events

1:00 pm -- 2:00 pm Keynote: What a Powerful Narrative Can Do For Your Library Todd Babiak is a best-selling author and entrepreneur. He is co-founder of Story Engine, a company that ​ ​ ​ uses narrative to bring focus, discipline, consistency and humanity to organization, places and leaders.

2:00 pm -- 2:25 pm Understanding the Role of Libraries in the Open Educational Resources Movement ~ Michelle Brailey (University of Alberta)

2:25 pm -- 2:50 pm Breathing life into outcomes: Information literacy for Respiratory Therapy students ~ Morgan Hordal (Southern Alberta Institute of Technology) ​

2:50 pm -- 3:05 pm Coffee Break ​ ​ ​ ​

3:05 pm -- 3:30 pm Where does student learning fit within the Copyright Act? ​ ​ ~ Dr. Meera Nair (Northern Alberta Institute of Technology)

3:30 pm -- 4:00 pm Capturing the Library: Investigating Library Content on Instagram ~ Hanne Pearce (University of Alberta)

Meeting Adjourned at 4:03pm

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AAAL Fall 2018 Meeting Attendees

Name Institution

Alison Pitcher MacEwan University

Allison Comrie Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity

Allison Sivak University of Alberta

Amanda Wakaruk University of Alberta

Angie Mandeville University of Alberta

Ben Harrison Lakeland College

Carmen Reems NAIT

Christine Loo NAIT

CJ de Jong University of Alberta

Corene Kozey* Lethbridge College

Dan Mireau* Concordia University of Edmonton

Darcy Gullacher* Alberta Bible College

David Mucz Red Deer College

Debbie McGugan* MacEwan University

Ebony Magnus* SAIT

Eva Revitt MacEwan University

Isobel Rancier* NAIT

Hanne Pearce University of Alberta

Jessica Leslie SAIT

Jessie Loyer Mount Royal University

Jodi Lommer NAIT

Kalin Jensen NAIT

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Karina Dunn* Vanguard College

Kim Frail University of Alberta

Kyla Lee University of Alberta

Kymberly Sobchyshyn MacEwan University

Lindsey Whitson MacEwan University

Luke Malone SAIT

Mark Black* Banff Centre

Meera Nair NAIT

Michael Baird* Olds College

Michelle Brailey University of Alberta

Morgan Hordal SAIT

Myah Slade NAIT

Myra Skaronski Red Deer College

Ngina wa Kaai Norquest College

Nicole Palanuk* Yellowhead Tribal College

Nicolle Lemay MacEwan University

Norene Erickson MacEwan University

Patti Sherbaniuk University of Alberta

Rebekah Prette The King’s University

Rob Hudson* Athabasca University

Shannon D’Agnone* The King’s University

Sharon Murphy* University of Alberta

Tanya Nguyen* Norquest College

Tara Stieglitz MacEwan University

Tim Janewski TAL

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Virginia Pow University of Alberta

Wanjiku Kaai* Lakeland College *voting member or proxy voter

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